As promised in my previous post, now onto the second category of podcasts I’m listening to: History podcasts. I love history, in all it’s periods and countries. I even went so far as taking AP history in high school and did pretty well with it. Lots of my YouTube consumption are historical channels. And so it is also for podcasts. In fact, the very first podcast I started listening to, way back in 2019, was a history podcast. ...
In the interest of expanding my writing a bit, I always wanted to write about the media I’m consuming a bit more, and I will start with a small series of posts on my favorite podcasts. To me, there are roughly three kinds of podcasts I listen to. The first one is history podcasts - just some narrator telling me interesting tidbits from history. I will write about all of those in the next post. The second kind are what I’d call “current affairs” podcasts, e.g. news, politics, Open Source/Linux talk podcasts and such. ...
I was recently introduced to the excellent Wolf 359 audio drama. It’s the story of the crew of a space station orbiting a distant star, with good humor and interpersonal drama as well as some suspense/horror sprinkled in. I have a small set of other podcasts as well, first and foremost the great British History Podcast. Up to this point, I had mostly listened on my phone, during train rides, but also via my browser during Saturday morning household chores. ...